THE DOCUMENTS
DOW-UAP-D089, DOW-UAP-D090 and DOW-UAP-D091, three U.S. Navy Range Fouler Debriefs, the standardised form for recording unauthorised intrusions into controlled airspace during operations or training, filed for incidents in the Eastern United States (2020 and 2019) and over the Atlantic Ocean (2020). The release pairs each debrief with the infrared video recorded in the same encounter: DOW-UAP-PR106, DOW-UAP-PR112 and DOW-UAP-PR116. All six are records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 04, published at war.gov/ufo, cleared 10 July 2026.
Why this one is worth your time
Most military UAP videos arrive naked: a clip, a location, a year. Release 04 does something different three times over, pairing each infrared clip with the Range Fouler Debrief written about the same event, so the observer’s own narrative and the sensor product for the same minutes sit in one place. Readers of this series met the form in Release 01, six completed copies of it. These are the first pairs in which the release itself joins the paper to the footage, and this briefing records what each side of each pair says.
What the documents say
The form first. All three documents are copies of the same U.S. Navy template, headed “Range Fouler Debrief Form” on two of the released copies and “Range Fouler Reporting Form” on the third. The form asks for contact details, rank and crew position, then walks the observer through date, time, day or night, position, altitude and wind, a shape-and-appearance checklist, and a free-text field asking for a description of the contact “in your own words”. The printed text promises a response within five business days, states that identifying information is stripped from all reports before analysis, and instructs squadrons to rip display tapes covering the entire interaction and upload them. Release 01 Briefing 9 walks this same template field by field; these are three more completed copies of it.
Pair one: a small reflective object, Eastern United States, 2020 (D089 with PR106). The debrief is filed by an O-4 pilot, in daytime. The narrative field records an object that appeared quite small, held a constant direction, and had a shape the pilot could not make out beyond a reflective underside; on the checklist, metallic and reflective are the only boxes ticked, and the released copy does not give a speed. The paired PR106 is described in the release as 11 seconds of video from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, submitted to AARO by United States Northern Command. Its description carries a data-handling note: the media was digitally altered before being reported to AARO, and is presented as received. What the description says the clip shows: an area of contrast above the centre of the frame, a sensor mode change, and the area of contrast leaving the field of view at the top.
Pair two: twenty-eight years, and twenty seconds of tape, Eastern United States, 2019 (D090 with PR112). The narrative runs in the observer’s own words: between mission sorties they noticed an object with flight characteristics unlike anything seen in 28 years of performing for the USAF and Navy, as the released sentence has it, with a gap in the text after “performing”. A small object was below the aircraft, appearing to travel in a straight line opposite the platform’s direction at high speed. The observer tracked it for roughly 10 to 15 seconds before the recorder was switched on; zooming in for more resolution took the object out of the field of view, with no reacquisition even at lower zoom. The narrative also records that on analysis after the flight the object appeared to be rectangular, and that others with equal or more experience were also unsure what it might be. The paired PR112 is, in the release’s description, 20 seconds from an infrared sensor aboard a civilian aircraft, submitted by the United States Navy; the description has an area of contrast near the centre of the screen, exiting the left of frame around a zoom and display-mode change, with the final seconds showing no content.
Pair three: the deformed balloon, Atlantic Ocean, 2020 (D091 with PR116). The debrief is filed by an O-3 weapon systems officer, at dusk. The narrative, released with redactions through its middle, describes the object as a darker, maroonish colour, approximately 12 to 15 feet in height, structurally like a large, somewhat deformed balloon; it closes with the crew proceeding back to the ship and landing uneventfully. The record’s description adds that the phenomenon travelled with the wind and did not manoeuvre or change direction. This copy’s checklist carries the most ticks of the three: round, square, balloon-shaped and other shape are all marked, along with metallic, opaque and reflective. The paired PR116 is 32 seconds, submitted by United States Northern Command; in its description, the sensor zooms and pans to keep an area of contrast generally within the centre of the frame.
Every video description closes with the same caveat. All three state that the video description is provided for informational purposes only, and that readers should not interpret any part of it as an analytical judgement, investigative conclusion or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature or significance.
The declassification blocks. The released pages carry declassification blocks recording release in part on 19 May 2026, citing the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act’s UAP-records provisions and Executive Order 13526 for the portions withheld.
What the documents do not say
They do not identify any of the three objects. Each form records an observer’s description and a set of ticked boxes; none of the three narratives names what the object was, and the video descriptions record areas of contrast, not identifications.
They are released in part. Dates, times, positions, working areas, names and squadrons are withheld or blank in the released copies, along with stretches of the narratives, and the declassification blocks cite the withholding authorities line by line. The D089 copy gives no speed; the D090 copy carries a gap in the middle of its 28-years sentence.
They do not include the display tapes the form itself asks squadrons to rip and upload, beyond the three released clips, and they do not include whatever analysis followed. Where the sanitised reports went, and what the process made of them, is not part of this release.
Neither the debriefs nor the video descriptions use the phrase “floating brain”. That phrase belongs to the commentary around the Atlantic case, not to the record (see “Where the case connects”).
From the record
Range Fouler Debrief Form The form’s own header, DOW-UAP-D089 and D091; the D090 copy is headed “Range Fouler Reporting Form”
A small object was below us and appeared to be traveling in a straight line opposite our direction From the DOW-UAP-D090 narrative, Eastern United States, 2019
Others with equal or more experience were also unsure as to what this object might be. The D090 narrative’s closing line
Structurally, it appeared as a large, somewhat deformed balloon From the DOW-UAP-D091 narrative, Atlantic Ocean, 2020
proceeded back to the ship, landing uneventfully. The D091 narrative’s closing line
Absolutely no identifying information for aircrew or squadron will be recorded for analysis. The form’s printed notice beneath the contact fields, DOW-UAP-D089
Authority: FY 24 NDAA, now codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 Date: 5/19/2026 Released in Part: X The declassification block, DOW-UAP-D089
Note on quotes: the debriefs are recent typed forms and the released text layer is largely clean, but optical character recognition still leaves artefacts (stray spaces, occasional broken words: the D089 narrative renders “small” as “smal l” and “reflective” as “refilective”, so that narrative is summarised above rather than quoted). Quotes are reproduced byte-for-byte from the released text, and the American spellings are the record’s own.
Where the case connects
Release 01 Briefing 9 is the form’s own briefing: six completed Range Fouler forms from 2020 to 2023, spanning the Middle East, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and Japan, with a field-by-field walk through the template, including the sanitisation step those copies attribute to a programme named SPEAR. These three files are the same paperwork with the footage attached, which the Release 01 set did not have.
Press coverage of this release, including NewsNation and The Hill, links the Atlantic pair (D091 with PR116) to a video long rumoured in UAP circles under the nickname “floating brain”, described in that coverage as a blob-shaped object with narrower elements dangling beneath it. The released record uses no such phrase: the debrief describes a wind-borne, balloon-like object twelve to fifteen feet tall, and the video description an area of contrast held centre-frame. The nickname and its lore sit in the commentary around the case, and the pairing now lets the two layers be compared directly.
The files leave their own threads. The form instructs that display tapes be ripped for the entire interaction; whether more footage than these three clips exists in the system is not something the release states. The sanitised analysis the form feeds is absent. One description records a data-handling fact, the digital alteration of PR106 before it reached AARO. Any later tranche that releases the analysis behind these reports, or fuller sensor records, lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D089, D090 and D091, with their paired videos DOW-UAP-PR106, PR112 and PR116, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 04.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
The wiki entries below give background on the programme and publisher behind this briefing, and on the subjects it touches.
References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D089, “Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2020”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D090, “Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States, 2019”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D091, “Range Fouler Debrief, Atlantic Ocean, 2020”, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR106, “Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020”, video, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR112, “Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2019”, video, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-PR116, “Unresolved UAP Report, Atlantic Ocean, 2020”, video, PURSUE Release 04, U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 01 Briefing 9, on the Range Fouler reporting system
- Press reporting linking the Atlantic 2020 pair to the “floating brain” rumour: NewsNation and The Hill, July 2026